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However, the video has been exposed as nothing more than a hoax made using CGI technology.

Suspicious UFO debunkers investigated Mr Aviles and discovered from his own Facebook page he was a graphic artist who has made a host of stunning CGI videos.

One of them, who uses the name Nightowl on YouTube, even confronted him through Instagram, and released a video of a message exchange, in which Mr Aviles admitted he made the haox video to gauge reaction to his work and he did it before with fake footage of a UFO entering water, "which went viral".

Express.co.uk contacted Mr Aviles, who declined to comment further, but said the Nightowl video was correct.